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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Savings Banks Foundation for International Cooperation, Irish Rural Link and Public Banking Forum of Ireland (12 Oct 2017)

John McGuinness: Are they offering the same rate of 1.1%?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Savings Banks Foundation for International Cooperation, Irish Rural Link and Public Banking Forum of Ireland (12 Oct 2017)

John McGuinness: Dublin and Tipperary have yet to come in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Savings Banks Foundation for International Cooperation, Irish Rural Link and Public Banking Forum of Ireland (12 Oct 2017)

John McGuinness: Is Senator Burke finished?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Savings Banks Foundation for International Cooperation, Irish Rural Link and Public Banking Forum of Ireland (12 Oct 2017)

John McGuinness: We give participants plenty of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Savings Banks Foundation for International Cooperation, Irish Rural Link and Public Banking Forum of Ireland (12 Oct 2017)

John McGuinness: I am sure his language skills and presentation have impressed our visitors and members. I call Deputy Kelly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Savings Banks Foundation for International Cooperation, Irish Rural Link and Public Banking Forum of Ireland (12 Oct 2017)

John McGuinness: Does it have anything to do with the lady sitting beside Mr. Boland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Savings Banks Foundation for International Cooperation, Irish Rural Link and Public Banking Forum of Ireland (12 Oct 2017)

John McGuinness: Does Mr. Bergmann want to answer some of the questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Savings Banks Foundation for International Cooperation, Irish Rural Link and Public Banking Forum of Ireland (12 Oct 2017)

John McGuinness: On the suggestion made by Deputy Kelly about the report, with the agreement of the committee, we can ask the Department of Finance about the current position on that report and ask it to send us a draft copy. As stakeholders, because the committee will be dealing with it, we could ask where it stands now. We could then debate it and perhaps add some speed to the process and bring it to some...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Savings Banks Foundation for International Cooperation, Irish Rural Link and Public Banking Forum of Ireland (12 Oct 2017)

John McGuinness: I do not know if Ms Dooley wishes to contribute. She is the only female here among all the suits talking about banks. Is there something she would like to see?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Savings Banks Foundation for International Cooperation, Irish Rural Link and Public Banking Forum of Ireland (12 Oct 2017)

John McGuinness: I am grateful to the Members who are not members of the committee but who are here because they add weight to the argument and the case being put forward. I encourage the Government parties, and I say this in a cross-party sense, to encourage the Minister to look favourably on that report and to include this committee in its consideration of the outcome of the report so that we can debate it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Savings Banks Foundation for International Cooperation, Irish Rural Link and Public Banking Forum of Ireland (12 Oct 2017)

John McGuinness: We have dealt extensively with the last question. Do the witnesses want to answer the other two questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Savings Banks Foundation for International Cooperation, Irish Rural Link and Public Banking Forum of Ireland (12 Oct 2017)

John McGuinness: I thank the delegates, particularly our guests from Germany, for attending and for their contributions. I wish them well. We will certainly put on pressure from our end to ensure we have the report, debate it and move on the agenda.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Property Tax Exemptions (12 Oct 2017)

John McGuinness: 181. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding local property tax exemptions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43292/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Sites (10 Oct 2017)

John McGuinness: 69. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of complaints received from the unions and safety representatives based at a location (details supplied); the nature of the complaints; his plans to deal with the matters raised; if there is a basic maintenance plan in operation at the site; if the staff toilets and public toilets are adequate and up to standard; the amount...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (10 Oct 2017)

John McGuinness: 277. To ask the Minister for Health the level of consultation with home helps in County Kilkenny which is being or has been undertaken by the HSE relative to establishing a new roster system; if a pilot project is being put in place in certain parts of County Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42461/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Protected Disclosures (10 Oct 2017)

John McGuinness: 323. To ask the Minister for Health if a protected disclosure submitted to his Department by a person (detailed supplied) has been processed. [42622/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (5 Oct 2017)

John McGuinness: I will now deal with No. 7, which is scrutiny of EU legislative proposals. Before we proceed with the business I wish to record the decision taken by the committee on EU legislative proposals. The committee agreed that COM (2017) 331, a proposal regarding the supervision of central counter-parties and COM (2017) 343, a proposal on a standardised pan-European personal pension product,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (5 Oct 2017)

John McGuinness: I welcome Mr. Gerry Mallon, Ulster Bank chief executive officer, and his colleagues. Before I ask Mr. Mallon to make his opening statement I must draw attention to the fact that by virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation Act 2009, witnesses are protected by absolute privilege in respect of their evidence to the committee. However, if they are directed by the Chairman to cease giving...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (5 Oct 2017)

John McGuinness: I call Deputy Doherty.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (5 Oct 2017)

John McGuinness: To further expand on Senator Horkan's questions on the GRG group and what is happening in the United Kingdom, the Financial Conduct Authority, FCA, in the UK ordered the report in 2014 into the allegations of 12,000 small businesses that it was meant to help - and I am reading from an article in the Financial Timesand when the independent report was leaked to the BBC, that report is said to...